yusri
Apr 3 2005, 10:35 AM
| | It is easy to create your own icon, just pick a bitmap (.bmp) file and change its extension to .ico.
To do so, open the Windows Explorer, click on the View menu (or Tools in WinMe), click Folder Options, click View tab, remove the check on the "Hide file extensions for known files types" option, and then click OK.
Select a bitmap file, press F2 key, and then change its extension to .ico.
Have fun learning:) |
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snlildude87
Apr 3 2005, 03:28 PM
Dude! That's so awesome! I never knew you could do that.  This is gonna save me from installing unnecessary programs because I just formatted my computer. Good job!  Edit: I corrected a typo, "unnessary" :
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mahesh2k
Apr 3 2005, 03:43 PM
Well i know that tip but i also figured out there is software called Folderstyle that can let you cahnge your folder icon.and best of all its free.anyway like the tip. Do you know any place where we can download cool icons?
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bureX
Apr 3 2005, 06:11 PM
WTF???? Dude... You just changed the FILE EXTENSION from BMP to ICO!!! That doesn't mean that you have converted a BMP file to an icon! It's still a BMP image file! You can try and open it in any icon editing program and it will display a message "Unknown Icon Format". Bitmaps and icons are very different! Icons have to contain information about the number of colors in the icon, alpha blending information (in case of Windows XP icons) and the size of the icon. If you want to convert image files to icons, you have to have the right software for that! If you follow this tutorial, your newly created "icons" will be unusable! Creating your own icon can be (and usually is) very difficult, because you have to define the transparent, inverted and semi-transparent areas of the icon...
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snlildude87
Apr 3 2005, 08:02 PM
QUOTE(bureX @ Apr 3 2005, 03:11 PM) If you follow this tutorial, your newly created "icons" will be unusable! Creating your own icon can be (and usually is) very difficult, because you have to define the transparent, inverted and semi-transparent areas of the icon... Well, that depends on your definition of "usable." You can open the icon file with Paint and still edit it (I tried). You can view the uploaded icon file in your browser by adding the code CODE <link rel="SHORTCUT ICON" href="favicon.ico"> between the <head> tags in your HTML files (I tried this, too).
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bureX
Apr 3 2005, 10:38 PM
That's kind of weird... You can trick browsers with this  ! BTW: Paint?  When you open a (real) icon in paint, the transparent areas are colored black! Anyway, the icon cannot be used in many icon editing programs such as "Icon Cool Editor" or Borlands Image Editor... It can't be even viewed in ACDSee! Therefore, it is NOT a valid icon file! See for yourself: 
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snlildude87
Apr 3 2005, 11:59 PM
Hmm....well....*thinks of something to say*...everybody knows Paint is the best picture editing program anway!
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yusri
Apr 4 2005, 06:32 AM
Yeah, I also have try many experiment with the bitmap(doesn't work for me ). Seems you need a software especially beginners. But if you clever enough you can use it .
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clagnol
Apr 7 2005, 04:06 AM
I use a nifty little program called "Artcursors" that works with .ico, .gif, .cur, .jpg, .png, and .rc files. If you're looking to create or convert icons, I recommend this program.
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nonon
Apr 7 2005, 12:58 PM
Well i use Adobe Photoshop!!  I've seen this tutorial - How to create a favoicon to web sites, quite a while and it's really cool!! The only thing you need is to install a very small plugin, donationware, without any spyware (at least i didn't detected anything),and you will be able to save any file into the icon format. The plugin ? ya, right over hereHope it helps out, at least some of you, the lucky ones like me, that use Adobe Photoshop 
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Jimmy
Apr 9 2007, 07:40 PM
QUOTE(Teragonto @ Sep 13 2006, 11:00 PM)  It's impossible to change a bmp file to an icon! You can only do that with the .gif extension with some kind of software(forgot name)! Wrong! I just tried this and it works absolutely fine. I made a 16x16px image in photoshop, saved it as a bitmap and renamed it .ico It worked perfectly just look at the favicon for http://projectjim.co.uk If the favicon is a blue blurred circular thing... then there you have it. (my favicon i know its rubbish! but still it proves the point.) I decided to dig this up now I know it works
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Sprnknwn
Sep 19 2006, 08:22 AM
When I saw that F2 thing I was like "that canīt be so easy". Anyway itīs not so difficult, I did it but I donīt remember how right now. If Iīm not wrong there must be and old tutorial about using a favicon in your website here in these forums. Just use the forum search and you should find it. Of course you can do it with your Trap17 account.
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cangor
Sep 18 2006, 07:52 PM
I'd say just get a program to do it... there are lots of free ones out there... And also, I think icons have to be 256 colors...
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delivi
Sep 18 2006, 01:03 PM
thats a cool tip friends for sharing the different ways of creating an Icon. Thanx dudes for your inputs.
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Teragonto
Sep 13 2006, 10:00 PM
It's impossible to change a bmp file to an icon! You can only do that with the .gif extension with some kind of software(forgot name)!
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